The National Weather Service defines a hurricane as a “tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 74 mph (64 knots ... winds on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Florida is getting another scare days after Halloween — a potential storm. Here's what to know about Tropical Storm Rafael, hurricane terms.

In a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Mann added his voice to calls for the Saffir-Simpson scale to be expanded to include ... defined as a hurricane ...

With winds equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, this typhoon packed immense destructive ... Of greatest concern were the projected winds of 150-165 knots near the ...

confirming its ranking on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. The current Atlantic hurricane season has produced 17 storms, three more than average.

"This storm is expected to make landfall Wednesday morning as a Category 1 or possibly a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale in western Cuba," AccuWeather Meteorologist ...

As the search for missing Texas mother of four Suzanne Simpson moves into its second week, authorities are searching a landfill after searching several other locations, including the woods near ...

The origins of this prediction go back to the 2000 episode “Bart to the Future,” where The Simpsons depicted a future in which Lisa Simpson becomes president, inheriting a chaotic financial ...

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